[quote=@Disciple Cain]
Few questions. About how powerful/influential are our starting characters, and how much creative license do we have with their stories?
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Your character can be as influential as you want them, but [i]please[/i] don't make them too powerful. I'd like it if all the characters were roughly at the same level of power.

You have quite a bit of creative license with your story. It can be pretty much anything, so long as it doesn't directly contradict another person's story and actually have a reason for your character to be exploring the Lichberg.